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(From left) Prof
Zillur Rahman Siddiqui,
Prof Syed Manzoorul
Islam and Dr Nuran Nabi
hold copies of a book
titled 'Born in Bengal'
at a publication
ceremony at Hotel
Sheraton in the city on
the concluding day of
the Non-Resident
Bangladeshi Conference
2007 yesterday. Photo:
STAR
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Speakers at a book publication
ceremony yesterday urged the people
concerned to write their experiences
of the War of Liberation not only to
tell people the truth but also to
counter those distorting the
country's history.
They made the call during the
publication of the second edition of
'Born in Bengal', memoirs by
expatriate Bangladeshi Dr Nuran Nabi
of events leading up to the
liberation war, at Hotel Sheraton in
the city on the concluding day of
the Non-Resident Bangladeshi
Conference 2007.
�This book is a collage of events
from those tremulous time. This is
not a history, but rather, a
first-person account of my
generation,� said the author, whom
the Far Eastern Economic Review
referred to as �the brain� of
Tangail freedom fighters' forces for
his contributions during the War of
Liberation.
Published by Scholars Publishers,
Dhaka, the 175-page book also has
some rare photographs of Bangabandhu
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Maulana
Bhasani and events leading up to the
liberation war.
Prof Zillur Rahman Siddiqui was
present as the chief guest while
Farida Majid, a faculty of City
University of New York, former
ambassador Anwar ul Alam Shaheed and
Prof Khairul Bashar of Dhaka
University also spoke at the
programme moderated by Prof Syed
Manzoorul Islam.
